Virtual Environments

All of Tableau’s products operate in virtualized environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements.

Internationalization

These products are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation are in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

The minimum specifications are only suggested for prototyping and testing of Tableau Server. The installer checks for the minimum system requirements and will not proceed on computers with less than these hardware minimums:

2 cores

64-bit processor

8 GB system memory

15 GB minimum free disk space

Recommended Requirements

The minimum configuration recommended for production usage of Tableau Server is based on these hardware specifications:

Virtual Environments

All Tableau products operate in virtualized environments when they are configured with the proper underlying Windows operating system and minimum hardware requirements. We recommend VM deployments with dedicated CPU affinity.

Internationalization

All of Tableau’s products, with the exception of tabadmin, are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation of Tableau Server are in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.

Data Sources

Extracts of all data sources compatible with Tableau Desktop. Note, extracts of multidimensional (cube) data sources are not available.

Live connections to many data sources, both hosted in the cloud and on-premises via the Tableau Bridge client. See the complete list here.

For more information on the differences between live connections and extracts in Tableau Online, view the whitepaper.

Storage

100 Gigabytes

Internationalization

All of Tableau’s products are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language.

Reader

Data Sources

Tableau Desktop Packaged Workbook

File Interaction

View, filter, sort, export, print and paging

System Requirements

Windows

Microsoft Windows 7 or newer (64-bit).

2 GB memory

1.5 GB minimum free disk space

Mac

iMac/MacBook computers 2009 or newer

OSX 10.10 or newer

1.5 GB minimum free disk space

Internationalization

All of Tableau’s products, with the exception of tabadmin, are Unicode-enabled and compatible with data stored in any language. The user interface and supporting documentation of Tableau Reader are in English, French, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.